{"id":216441,"date":"2024-07-24T07:01:56","date_gmt":"2024-07-24T11:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=216441"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:56:04","slug":"uconn-magazine-net-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2024\/07\/uconn-magazine-net-worth\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Magazine: Net Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI did what any 12-year-old boy would do \u2014 I latched onto the thing,\u201d says Jesse Senko \u201906 (CAHNR), recounting the time a \u201cgigantic\u201d green sea turtle swam up to him while he was snorkeling in the Cayman Islands with his family. \u201cI remember hearing the screams from my mom on the boat. She was terrified. She\u2019s screaming. And the crew\u2019s blowing whistles. And they\u2019re yelling. And I remember thinking, \u2018Screw it. I\u2019m going on this ride.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Eventually the turtle brought Jesse back to the boat. But the ride never ended.<\/p>\n<p>Even as Jesse\u2019s parents were yanking their delinquent out of the water, he was sputtering, \u201cNow I know what I want to do with my life. I want to study sea turtles.\u201d Of course they laughed. \u201cThey were like, \u2018Oh my God, that\u2019s so cute.\u2019 I mean, they didn\u2019t discourage it. No, no,\u201d says Senko. \u201cBut they were thinking, Yeah, that\u2019s today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two decades and three university degrees later, Senko is still obsessed with sea turtles. His signature laser focus, though, has shifted from the sea turtles themselves to the fishers who unwittingly tangle sea turtles and other bycatch in their gill nets.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/magazine.uconn.edu\/2024\/06\/26\/net-worth\/?utm_campaign=magazine_summer24&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=uconn_today_readmore\">Read on for more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To save the sea turtles, says alum Jesse Senko, you first need to help the fishers whose very nets entangle them<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":110,"featured_media":216442,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147,2224,2649,2300,2624,2235,102],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2027],"class_list":["post-216441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-cahnr","category-blue-pride","category-natural-resources-environment","category-blue","category-today-homepage","category-uconn-magazine"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-28 05:28:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/110"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216441"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216453,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216441\/revisions\/216453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/216442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216441"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=216441"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=216441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}